Magic Mirror Blanks Several Hours

MadScientist

@sdetweil
That didn’t help in my case, hence the work-around with the cronjob. But it’s true that everybody should first try to disable the update module in their config.

StrIIker

@sdetweil said in Magic Mirror Blanks Several Hours:

@striiker is this version 2.4.1?

The update module was throwing an error causing the black screen.

I would comment out that module

I am at the latest build (2.5.0) although I installed Magic Mirror from the previous version and have the update module running.

StrIIker

@madscientist said in Magic Mirror Blanks Several Hours:

@sdetweil
That didn’t help in my case, hence the work-around with the cronjob. But it’s true that everybody should first try to disable the update module in their config.

I was unaware of the suggestion to kill the update module. I have removed it from my config and will monitor the status. Thank you for the suggestion (and @sdetweil )! Any other best practice suggestions which I should consider? I have just done the base install and modified weather icons / details and also installed Alexapi (yet to work on that module as I am still trying to understand if I should also install either MMM-Alexa or MMM-Awesome-Alexa too as I am not clear on how these all work).

StrIIker

@madscientist Could you please share what you use in your cronjob to reload the modules? Thanks!

MadScientist

@striiker 0 6 * * * pm2 reload mm
It reloads my mm.sh script every day at 6am. Working perfectly fine for quite some time now.

StrIIker

@sdetweil said in Magic Mirror Blanks Several Hours:

@striiker is this version 2.4.1?

The update module was throwing an error causing the black screen.

I would comment out that module

I’m in the same boat as @MadScientist in that my module rotation still dies necessitating a restart of the modules. Canceling the update check did improve the situation in that it apparently does not crash out as often.

Graham Rich

@sdetweil So I’ve updated my MagicMirror today with NPM update and NPM upgrade and my mirror is now black when I load it. My Mirror is pretty busy with NNOA3, video window from MotionEye and a few of the UK train apps. I was going to thin it down to see if that fixes it but thought Id check if anyone else found a fix yet.

Graham Rich

I’m not sure if my issue isnt an update failure. Im getting this message on upgrade

pi@pi:~/MagicMirror $ npm update

phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16 install /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt
node install.js

PhantomJS not found on PATH
Unexpected platform or architecture: linux/arm
It seems there is no binary available for your platform/architecture
Try to install PhantomJS globally
npm WARN grunt-yamllint@0.3.0 requires a peer of grunt@>=1.0.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16 (node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt):
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16 install: node install.js
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Exit status 1

moment@2.22.2
iconv-lite@0.4.24
walk@2.3.14
added 5 packages from 11 contributors and audited 2316 packages in 40.649s
found 5 low severity vulnerabilities
run npm audit fix to fix them, or npm audit for details

phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16 install /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt
node install.js

PhantomJS not found on PATH
Unexpected platform or architecture: linux/arm
It seems there is no binary available for your platform/architecture
Try to install PhantomJS globally

electron-chromedriver@1.8.0 install /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron-chromedriver
node ./download-chromedriver.js

successfully dowloaded and extracted!
npm WARN grunt-yamllint@0.3.0 requires a peer of grunt@>=1.0.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16 (node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt):
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16 install: node install.js
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Exit status 1

spectron@3.8.0
removed 4 packages, updated 2 packages and audited 2311 packages in 42.884s
found 5 low severity vulnerabilities

MadScientist

@graham-rich to update your MM installation you have to enter your MM directory and run git pull && npm install. Looks like you tried to update npm instead.

Graham Rich

Just run NPM install in the MagicMirror directory and seems to have fixed it. Was suggestion from NPM audit command
thanks for suggestion tho